Jamaica Gleaner Commentary published: Tuesday | November 8, 2005
Leptospirosis deaths
FOUR PERSONS are confirmed dead from leptospirosis in Clarendon and what was at first thought to be food poisoning deaths in St. Catherine are now suspected to be other cases of death from the disease.
LAST WEEK, the installed 'government' of Haiti brought charges of financial improprieties against exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. However, Aristide's allegation that he was kidnapped by French and American troops... - Devon Dick
ACCORDING TO the Mirriam-Webster dictionary, the noun 'rumour' has Latin roots and comes from the word rumor meaning clamour, gossip. It is defined as "talk or opinion widely disseminated with no discernable source". - Garth Rattray
